Cartier collection Watches and Wonders 2025

Borna Bošnjak

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Cartier’s path to mainstream watchmaking recognition is a curious one. It was a model that was at all times well-respected by each those that knew nothing about watches, and those that have been deep into the interest. And but, these informal watch followers have been those that almost all typically disregarded them as simply “the model that makes the Tank“. Over the previous couple of years, that perspective has absolutely shifted, which is definitely one of many the reason why Cartier has been blissful to experiment with shapes new and previous. The model’s foci for this 12 months’s Watches and Wonders are an ideal present of that, with a legend being revived, alongside some high quality of life enhancements in its classical day by day wearers, and loads of haute horlogerie meets haute joaillerie goodness too.

Cartier Privé Tank à Guichets

Let’s get the watch that may doubtless be on many individuals’s “better of” lists because the honest concludes. The brand new Tank à Guichets joins Cartier’s unique Privé line with 4 references, three of that are non-limited, however don’t let that idiot you into considering you’ll be capable to decide one up. Accessible in yellow gold, rose gold, or platinum, the non-limited trio intently resembles the unique Tank à Guichets from 1928, with its 12 o’clock crown and leaping hours/dragging minutes show, although it’s the fourth mannequin that’s maybe most curious. It switches the orientation of the numerals to face the suitable aspect of the watch, in a restricted run of 200 items that aren’t prone to final.

Cartier Tank Louis Cartier Computerized

The Tank Louis Cartier is well essentially the most effortlessly elegant of all of the Tank fashions. With slim, rounded brancards outlining its rectangular case form, the newest Tank LC doesn’t appear to be all that completely different apart from its new sunray textured dials. The true improve hides beneath the stable caseback within the type of the Calibre 1899 MC, essentially the most conventional and recognisable of all of the completely different Tank fashions. It’s been some time since we’ve seen a self-winding motion within the Tank LC, one thing like 50 years, although, I wouldn’t fear about this altering the method an excessive amount of. It’s solely 2mm wider and thicker, and 5mm taller than the extant “Massive” manual-winder, and you may learn extra concerning the new Tank Louis Cartier Computerized right here.

Cartier Panthère de Cartier

The Panthère has loved revived curiosity in latest occasions, however principally in its much less elaborate variants – assume metal, or “simply” yellow gold. However Cartier is aware of that it’s a timeless model, and that just about something it comes out with can be met with oohs and aahs, and so we have been handled to a small choice of gem-set and optionally lacquered Panthère fashions for W&W 2025. The hero piece is definitely the absolutely set Medium mannequin with lacquered stripes akin to that of an enormous cat – although panthers technically have spots, being melanistic leopards or jaguars, however I digress. It greater than makes up for it with its smattering of spessartite gems that give it distinctive heat, and if that’s a bit too blingy for you, you possibly can go for one of many different three sizes the place the gem-setting stops on the case.

Cartier Panthère Jewelry Watch

If the Panthère de Cartier didn’t fairly have sufficient large cat for you, Cartier has you coated with this wild Panthère bangle. Taking over the form of the Reflection launched final 12 months, the small watch aspect curves round your wrist to turn out to be a leaping panther stretching its paws out in the direction of you. It’s out there in yellow or white gold flavours, with the previous limiting itself to a diamond-set bezel, however with a watch (?) like this, you might as properly go all out. And all-out it goes, with a good looking diamond-setting method that disappears in the direction of the hinge of the bangle, with the panther getting emerald eyes and onyx spots. See, they’re spots – Cartier is aware of what a panther appears like.

Cartier Tressage

Final, however not least, now we have the Cartier Tressage, the primary watch from the jewelry line launched again in 2023. French for “braiding”, you possibly can see the place the inspiration got here from this explicit sculpture, with two interwoven bands lining the perimeters of what appears to be an nearly Tank-like watch beneath. There are a number of variants as soon as once more, with choices for diamond setting too, however right here I’d actually need to go along with the distinction of yellow gold and black. It absolutely expresses the shapely sides, and it’s one in all Cartier’s jewelry creations that gained’t be not possible to drag of casually both, with time-telling not overly obscured by the flowery design.